"Loeb hasn’t given a fully worked-out technical spec in the interviews, but when he says the “only way to reach it now is with a beam of light,” he’s essentially talking about laser-based optical messaging — not sending ASCII text over a TCP socket to a rock in space."
this explains so much with my recent failed tcp connections!!! I was trying to connect to rocks.
Gotta be extra difficult when the rocks are in Mr. Loeb's head